Amedeo Avogadro

Bibliography

M.P. Crosland, “Amedeo Avogadro,” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1 (1970), pp. 343–350, provides a readily available critical discussion of Avogadro’s scientific work and its importance for the history of chemistry. Mario Morselli, Amedeo Avogadro: A Scientific Biography (1984), discusses the social and political context of Avogadro’s life in ways that complement the more standard biographical accounts, which focus primarily upon his scientific discoveries.

Icilio Guareschi, “Amedeo Avogadro e la sua opera scientifica. Discorso storico-critico,” in Opere scelte di Amedeo Avogadro (1911), pp. 1–40, is the definitive historical account of Avogadro’s scientific work and career in Italian. In it, many of Avogadro’s important physicochemical papers are reprinted.